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- Birth nameRobert Brown Parker
- Nickname
- Ace
- Robert B. Parker was born on September 17, 1932 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006), B.L. Stryker (1989) and Spenser: For Hire (1985). He was married to Joan H. Parker. He died on January 18, 2010 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseJoan H. Parker(August 26, 1956 - January 18, 2010) (his death, 2 children)
- Is a Korean War veteran.
- His character Spenser is modeled after Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe.
- Helen Hunt requested he create a female private detective for her to play. The result was Parker's series of novels featuring Sunny Randall.
- He was chosen to complete Raymond Chandler's last Phillip Marlowe novel (one of the inspirations for Parker's own fictional private eye, Spenser), "Poodle Springs." Though Chandler left only four chapters when he died in 1959, Parker, to critical acclaim and commercial success, completed the novel, which was published in 1989 (with an initial print run of 200,000).
- Received his doctorate in American Literature from Boston University, and later taught at Northeastern (also in Boston).
- Art is a part of our everyday life and to proceed in its pursuit in an everyday way is to stand up to the bastards. You keep on keeping on.
- Sunny Randall was invented at the behest of Helen Hunt, who wanted me to invent someone for her to play in a series of movies. We agreed that I would write a novel. Putnam would publish. Sony would buy it for Helen, and Helen would star. Everything worked fine up to actually making the movie. That is in limbo (nothing ever dies in Hollywood, though the birth rate is also low). Sunny did well and my publisher urged me to continue, so I did.
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